Celebration in Honor of Poe

The International Poe Association will hold a celebration in honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of Poe's birth in the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University, Boylston and Exeter streets, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. W. Kendall Watkins, who has made a careful study of the history of Boston, will speak on "Poe's Birth and his Parentage." "The Untrustworthy Memorialists of Poe" will be the subject of a speech by Mr. W. Lanier Washington, and Mr. William Fearing Gill, author of a Life of Poe, will tell of "Curious Coincidences, and Personal Reminiscences of Near Friends of Poe." The meeting will be open to the public and all men interested in the writings of Poe are especially invited to attend.